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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1962
Page
6
In Budapest’s Matyas Church a 50 member choir and a large congregation hear a priest advocate peace as Hungary’s Communist regime tolerates religion while pressuring atheism, especially among youth. Officials admit limited impact on the young and only partial peopling of atheistic rites in rural areas.
The Chancery Office announced December 28 in Burlington that nine priests are reassigned effective January 8. Fr. N Joseph Pray moves from Brattleboro St Michael’s to St Joseph’s Chester as pastor. Fr Christopher J McHugh shifts from East Dorset St Jerome’s to Woodstock Our Lady of Snows.
In Keystone Nebraska a rare combined church once served both faiths with a reversible pews design and dual altars for Catholic Mass and Protestant services. Now used mainly for special events, it attracts 600 to 700 visitors yearly under keeper Howard Hayes.
Fidel Castro gave four visiting Americans a two hour tour of Havana from a dockside arrival with $11 million in ransom supplies. He described Soviet aid projects, coastal industry, new hospitals and schools, and noted rural support amid urban discontent.
A baby boy found in a Bennington Sacred Heart pew may be committed to the Vermont Department of Social Welfare or to a private agency for adoption after probate court approval. Catholic Charities may cover care. police seek clues about the mother, with abandonment a felony carrying up to 10 years in prison or a $1000 fine.
A consolidated list shows worship times and Sunday school details for numerous churches in Arlington Dorset Pownal Shaftsbury and Wilmington with Masses sermons and special services listed by each parish including St Columbans St Pauls Zion Episcopal First Baptist First Congregational and others. Some entries note winter closes and seasonal schedules.
A compiled list of services, Sunday School times, worship sessions, and programs at churches in Bennington and nearby areas. Details include Rev. R P Bell at Old First Church and times for Missionary Alliance, First Church of God, Unitarian Fellowship, Sacred Heart, and St Francis de Sales, among others.
Sunday at First Methodist Church features Student Recognition Day with 9 and 11 a.m. services led by college and military student participants. Charles Graham of Union College Kentucky will preach on Our Christian Faith 1963. A 10 a.m. coffee hour in the social room. Hostess Mrs. T. Reod Moniger. Participants include Carol Cleveland Cynthia Frost John Hall Curtis Smith Janet MacDonald Linda Moninger Ty Trainor and Joseph Cleveland.
Old First Church in Old Bennington will start Sunday sessions at 10 a.m. instead of 9:30 a.m. for one week. regular 9:30 a.m. start resumes Jan 6. Activities include Board of Religious Education meeting, Ladies Aid, Junior MYF at Shaftsbury Church, and Senior Meth-Con Fellowship with film and youth service.
The Rev. John P. Donnelly of Spokane Washington is named director of the Bureau of Information for the National Catholic Welfare Conference He previously led the Spokane Diocese Bureau of Information and edited the Inland Register He succeeds Msgr John E Kelly who has resigned to lead St James Parish in Jamesburg New Jersey
Edwin Bronner, TV producer author, plans a new stage show built from On With the Show. The book by George Jean Nathan recounts notable Broadway revue moments from his theatergoing career.
Phillip Viereck will discuss "The Religion of Ethan Allen" at the Unitarian Fellowship this Sunday. Allen argues reason and faith unite in a natural religion, with moral perfection bringing man closer to God. Christian Science services will explain redemption through a scientifically correct understanding of God using Isaiah and Eddy's Science and Health as readings.
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